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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II Tasmanian Tiger
| Issuer | Niue |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | TASMANIAN TIGER |
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Niue has long served as a licensing vehicle for the New Zealand-based New World Mint, which produced this piece as part of a broader Australian wildlife series rather than anything connected to Niuean history or economy. The thylacine — officially declared extinct in 1986, decades after the last captive specimen died in Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo in 1936 — became a recurring subject for Australian and Pacific numismatic issues precisely because its extinction was bureaucratically belated and culturally charged.
The 1986 declaration came fifty years after Benjamin, the last known animal, died from neglect on a September night when the zoo keeper forgot to lock him inside.